Middleware for the Internet of Things

Journal of Internet Services and Applications welcomes submissions to the thematic series on 'Middleware for the Internet of Things'.

The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm enables interconnections and information exchange between physical and digital objects. IoT has been receiving attention from the research community and industry, due to its potential in changing the world, by providing a wide range of applications that touches several facets of our daily lives. Although much progress has been made at the system and sensing level, there are several challenges to realize the vision of the Internet of Things, in particular related to the support of applications development. Middleware platforms can act as a key enabler of IoT by providing an infrastructure with a set of innovative services to seamlessly support the development of IoT applications.

This JISA thematic series provides a forum for describing innovative contributions and/or ground-breaking results on middleware infrastructure, abstractions and services for enabling the Internet of Things (IoT).

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

Middleware infrastructure for IoT platforms

Cloud Middleware for IoT

Models and middleware to provide IoT services to context-aware applications

Middleware services for IoT

Complex Event processing for IoT

Composition and interoperability of IoT services and applications

Distribution of IoT services among mobile devices, edge devices, sensors and computers in the cloud

Data Management, Discovery, and Privacy for IoT

Services on the Cloud for IoT

Testbeds for IoT applications

Experiences of application development with middleware for IoT

Programming models for IoT applications

Submission Instructions

Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have carefully read the submission guidelines for Journal of Internet Services and Applications. The complete manuscript should be submitted through the Journal of Internet Services and Applicationssubmission system. To ensure that you submit to the correct thematic series please select the appropriate thematic series in the drop-down menu upon submission. In addition, indicate within your cover letter that you wish your manuscript to be considered as part of the thematic series on 'Middleware for the Internet of Things'. All submissions will undergo rigorous peer review and accepted articles will be published within the journal as a collection.

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Guest Editors

Danny Hughes, Leuven University, Belgium

Thais Batista, UFRN, Natal, Brazil

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